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The National Post has been conducting it’s own war on science. Now Andrew Weaver, one of the scientists they have attacked, is fighting back and suing them for defamation. The press release from Weaver’s lawyer says: University of Victoria Professor Andrew Weaver, the Canada Research Chair in Climate Modelling and Analysis, launched a lawsuit today…

Back in 2007 a paper, Amazon Forests Green-Up During 2005 Drought, was published in Science: Coupled climate-carbon cycle models suggest that Amazon forests are vulnerable to both long- and short-term droughts, but satellite observations showed a large-scale photosynthetic green-up in intact evergreen forests of the Amazon in response to a short, intense drought in 2005.…